Chilling threat by Scots priest to poison dogs in church grounds probed by police
The clergyman, named as Father Vincent Byrne, was filmed during the exchange at St Columba s RC Church during which he stated: Poor wee dogs - it would’ve been nice if you got to live longer.
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Memories of a half century of life in an Offaly village
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This week, Pat McCafferkey remembers five decades of life in Killeigh in the ongoing “People of Kileigh & Beyond” series.
My mother was a Hanley from Claremorris and met my father, a builder from Ballycroy, when she starting working in his local post office. They moved to Dublin in 1938; where my father continued in the building trade while my mother bought and ran a post office/drapery shop in Glasnevin. While the drapery shop is long gone, I believe there’s still a post office there.
With World War II escalating, my parents bought a farm in Athleague, Co. Roscommon and moved there shortly after I was born in 1940. Sadly, my mother fell ill with cancer and passed away in 1946. Soon after my father and I moved back to Dublin, he returned to building while I attended school at Passion Convent and then Marino School in Clontarf. My favourite subjects were History, Geography and English and to this day,